What song consistently brings you to tears?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

For me its the Grateful Dead's song Wharf Rat - especially the version on this album:


Skull & Roses

It is the most haunting song of a man whose fallen victim to a hard life and alcoholism - it always reminds me of my father. It amazes me how it gets me every time - I sing along and my voice cracks and I cry. Jerry's singing and playing on this particular version are haunting.

Anyway - how bout yourself?

[enigmatic]

1. "Closing Time"- Tom Waits

I've always wanted to do a video for this song; it never fails to put a tear in my eye..

[asthmaticeog]

2. Get enough drink in me...

...and the Pogues' "Lullabye of London" unfailingly reduces me to a weepy baby. Great fuckin' tune, and I ain't even Irish! :thumbsup:

[enigmatic]

3. That's a fantastic song

I was going to put Mo Tucker's version of "Danny Boy", too; it's beautiful..

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. Good idea - just put it n

And I AM Irish. :thumbsup:

I put this on a friend of Stephanie's funeral mix - it made his parents very happy!

[hippywife]

4. Lives in the Balance

by Jackson Browne. Especially now with the video on his website. It raises chills on my skin and brings me to tears.

The other one is Kathy Mattea's Where Have You Been? Whoa!

[Jade Fox]

98. I've been listening to Richie Havens version....

of that song in my car. It's amazing how little things have changed in the 20 years since Browne wrote it ("..how a government lies to a people, and a nation is drifting to war...).

[hippywife]

133. Very true.

I can listen to both versions of the song but I still prefer Jackson's.

[atomic-fly]

6. Neil Young... Its a Dream

In the morning when I wake up and listen to the sound
Of the birds outside on the roof
I try to ignore what the paper says
And I try not to read all the news
And I'll hold you if you had a bad dream
And I hope it never comes true
'Cause you and I been through so many things together
And the sun starts climbing the roof

It's a dream
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away
It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

The Red River stills flows through my home town
Rollin' and tumblin' on its way
Swirling around the old bridge pylons
Where a boy fishes the morning away
His bicycle leans on an oak tree
While the cars rumble over his head
An aeroplane leaves a trail in an empty blue sky
And the young birds call out to be fed

It's a dream
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away
It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

An old man walks along on the sidewalk
Sunglasses and an old Stetson hat
The four winds blow the back of his overcoat away
As he stops with the policeman to chat
And a train rolls out of the station
That was really somethin' in its day
Picking up speed on the straight prairie rails
As it carries the passengers away

It's gone
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away
Only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

It's a dream
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away
It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

It's a dream
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. Old Man

That one does it too.

[sweetheart]

7. bobby mcghee

joplin

[IsIt1984Yet]

9. Desperado.

[DelawareValleyDem]

95. seconded nt

[medeak]

10. PInk's "Dear Mr. President"

[fleabert]

82. seconded...nt

[atomic-fly]

11. Hurt Video by Johnny Cash...

That one gets me. THe song is strong, but the video kills.

[lizziegrace]

17. That video tears me up.

:cry:

[Ava]

18. i'm a fan of the original, but the cash version is so much different

and i like it better, i think.

[tishaLA]

176. When they show June looking plaintively at him

It always kills me.

[mduffy31]

194. Also his remake of Personal Jesus

That whole album is fantastic

[AwakeAtLast]

205. I couldn't agree with you more!

I asked for that CD for Christmas, and I never ask for music for Christmas!

So sad he's gone....:cry:

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

238. My pick too. n/t

[graywarrior]

12. Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

[grace0418]

44. I also love the remakes by Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Buckley

All of them make me choked up.

[Left Is Write]

89. Yes, and yes, yes, to the remakes listed also.

[huskerlaw]

137. Yup, though I prefer the kd lang version n/t

[graywarrior]

192. I never heard that version. I'll have to find it somewhere.

[Fenris]

13. "The Auld Triangle" by the Pogues

Written by Brendan Behan

[Ava]

14. A song has never actually made me cry, but several have made me sad.

:shrug:

[Ava]

15. actually i listened to someone sing "amazing grace" at a funeral once

i got really choked up.

[Mz Pip]

132. White Bird

by It's a Beautiful Day.

And Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

16. Almost tears: "Landslide." Fleetwood Mac or Dixie Chicks version

I don't know why, either.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

19. Maybe not full tears...but here's a few that make me sad

In my Darkest Hour by Glenn Phillips

Isle of Hope Isle of Tears, various artists

My Hometown by Bruce Springsteen

Oh Danny Boy: anybody

Angel by Sarah MacLachlan

[In_The_Wind]

20. Godspeed (Sweet Dreams) by the Dixie Chicks

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. Lullabye (Goodnight, my angel) by Billy Joel........n/t

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

121. This DU newbie says: Amen to this one.

When I first heard it, I immediately thought of my Mom who passed away in 1994. One of our very last (and very rare) family outings was a Lake Tahoe paddle-boat trip out to Emerald Bay. The lyrical reference to an emerald bay kills me every time.

I'm a mom now and tried to sing this song to my kids...and I always end up sounding like a damn fool sobbing through the lyrics.

QDM

[CaliforniaPeggy]

129. My dear Quiet_Dem_Mom.........

WELCOME TO DU!

Enjoy your stay in our crazy, dysfunctional addictive little town!

I'm pleased that you like my choice.....not many folks around here dig Billy Joel.....

And what a lovely poignant memory for you.....:hug:

[bigwillq]

22. "The Promise"

by Tracy Chapman.

[kwassa]

23. "Allison" by Elvis Costello (his aim is true)

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

24. "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by Eric Bogle

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/bandplayed.ram <- audio from radio performance in 1982

Now when I was a young man I carried me pack
And I lived the free life of the rover.
From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback,
Well, I waltzed my Matilda all over.
Then in 1915, my country said, "Son,
It's time you stop ramblin', there's work to be done."
So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun,
And they marched me away to the war.

And the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
As the ship pulled away from the quay,
And amidst all the cheers, the flag waving, and tears,
We sailed off for Gallipoli.
And how well I remember that terrible day,
How our blood stained the sand and the water;
And of how in that hell that they call Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.
Johnny Turk, he was waitin', he primed himself well;
He showered us with bullets, and he rained us with shell --
And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell,
Nearly blew us right back to Australia.
But the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
When we stopped to bury our slain,
Well, we buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs,
Then we started all over again.
And those that were left, well, we tried to survive
In that mad world of blood, death and fire.
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
Though around me the corpses piled higher.
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head,
And when I woke up in me hospital bed
And saw what it had done, well, I wished I was dead --
Never knew there was worse things than dying.
For I'll go no more "Waltzing Matilda,"
All around the green bush far and free --
To hump tents and pegs, a man needs both legs,
No more "Waltzing Matilda" for me.
So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed,
And they shipped us back home to Australia.
The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane,
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla.
And as our ship sailed into Circular Quay,
I looked at the place where me legs used to be,
And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me,
To grieve, to mourn and to pity.
But the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
As they carried us down the gangway,
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared,
Then they turned all their faces away.
And so now every April, I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me.
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march,
Reviving old dreams of past glory,
And the old men march slowly, all bones stiff and sore,
They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask "What are they marching for?"
And I ask meself the same question.
But the band plays "Waltzing Matilda,"
And the old men still answer the call,
But as year follows year, more old men disappear
Someday, no one will march there at all.
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda.
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the billabong,
Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me?

[TomInTib]

170. Is that true audio?

I cannot make it play.

But I have a great story regarding that song.

[Cathyclysmic]

25. Delete

I posted under the wrong name again...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

45. Not familiar with that band or that song

[riderinthestorm]

26. "Without You" from the musical "Rent" n/t

[ncrainbowgrrl]

222. Also- "Will I" from Rent.

Makes me cry- especially when I'm having a health problem

[Beware the Beast Man]

27. "I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)" by the White Stripes.

That's a current one. It sounds like a weepy old honky-tonk number, and damn if it doesn't make me well up.

The all-time tearjerker for me is Sarah Maclachlan's "Angel," or course. And you're right about Wharf Rat.


I'm such a wuss.

[Wapsie B]

28. Hail to the Chief

ever since January '01.

[Ava]

30. you'll enjoy this then!

:P

http://peacetakescourage.cf.huffingtonpost.com/animations/decider.html

[Wapsie B]

32. Bravo!!

Good one Ava!

:thumbsup:

[Ava]

33. thanks!

:pals:

[PassingFair]

29. Empty Garden

It's funny how one insect, can damage so much grain...

What happened here
As the new york sunset disappeared
I found an empty garden among the flagstones there
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And now it all looks strange
It’s funny how one insect can damage so much grain

And what’s it for
This little empty garden by the brownstone door
And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And we are so amazed we’re crippled and we’re dazed
A gardener like that one no one can replace

And I’ve been knocking but no one answers
And I’ve been knocking most all the day
Oh and I’ve been calling oh hey hey johnny
Can’t you come out to play

And through their tears
Some say he farmed his best in younger years
But he’d have said that roots grow stronger if only he could hear
Who lived there
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
Now we pray for rain, and with every drop that falls
We hear, we hear your name

Johnny can’t you come out to play in your empty garden

[Pendrench]

196. I agree - what a beautifully sad song. n/t

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

236. Brilliant and beautiful. Elton John conveyed melancholy so well and

this song just tears at my soul.

I mourn Lennon as well as the brash upstart that Elton John once was. MKJ

[riderinthestorm]

31. delete (dupe)

[sleepyhead]

34. "Something in the Rain" by Tish Hinojosa

Migrant workers and the illness/death caused by pesticides, courtesy of big agribusiness. From the point of view of a small boy.

[leftofthedial]

35. once in awhile, "Tecumseh Valley" gets to me

and there are a couple I wrote that I sometimes have trouble singing because of the lump in my throat

[enigmatic]

47. I can't sing or play that song

w/o a lump in my throat. And if it was Townes singing it w/ just his guitar, I was a blubbering mess..

[entanglement]

36. Some songs move me, but I haven't heard anything that's brought

me to tears.

[Broken_Hero]

37. A few...

"Mad World" originally by tears for fears, but Michael Andrews version/Finch's version was very good.

"Drowning" by Life of Agony

"Everybody Hurts"-REM

"Losing my Religion"-REM

"Please Forgive Me"-Bryan Adams

"Open Arms"-Journey

"I don't wanna Live without your love"-Chicago

"Estranged/Patience"-Guns and Roses...

A few...not all consistantly bring me tears, but all of them invoke, the emotions...

[DanCa]

38. Old Shep as sung by Johnny Cash.

[XNASA]

39. "Puff the Magic Dragon" or....

"He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones.

[Arugula Latte]

51. My daughter was listening to "Puff" today.

Apparently they sing it in her class so I pulled out the "Peter, Paul and Mommy" CD and put it on. My daughter explained that her teacher thought it was sad when Jackie grew up and stopped believing in Puff. It always makes me sad, as well.

On a lighter note, I turned to my husband and subtly pantomimed smokin' a doobie ... heh heh ... one of those things you "get" about the song when you're older.

[chaska]

67. NO, DON'T! That song....

is so sweet. It's not about drugs. I refuse to believe it. There should be some things that are pure and beautiful, without the taint of juvenile adult attitudes.

And yes, of course, this is not the first time I'm hearing about the drug thing.

[Arugula Latte]

103. Okay, okay!

Sorry!

[HEyHEY]

219. It isn't about drugs

The writer even said it isn't. It's about the loss of childhood.

[pitohui]

74. oh god "he stopped loving her today"

that is one

i could tell a story abt that one but won't bore you

it was always sad but now it will always make me think of the death of bay st. louis

[kedrys]

40. Fall to Pieces, Velvet Revolver

The most recent song I've heard that wrecks me consistently. The video is awesome, but the song stands by itself.

[fudge stripe cookays]

41. Don't laugh, because I know they're lame....

There are two:

"Sailing" by Christopher Cross
"Too Hot" by Kool and the Gang

Hear me out.

They both came out right about the time my dad died. I was 13. "Sailing" was always on the radio driving back and forth from the hospital for a month beforehand.

The day he died, we made all our phone calls to family, and nearby cousins came over to stay with us. I still remember driving to pick up a bucket of chicken later that night with my cousin, and "Too Hot" came on the radio driving home. It stuck in my head.

I still turn into a blithering idiot. Especially if I'm in the car. I have to pull over and sob, and then when it's over, I'm OK again.

It's weird because they're such lame songs, but I feel so close to my dad listening to them, so I don't want to turn them off.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

128. That's interesting....

In the music marketing class I took, we discussed that women tend to associate music and songs with specific events while guys associate music with...uh....I can't remember what guys associate music with, but, for sure, it was said that women have this tendency.

[fudge stripe cookays]

178. I've heard that too.

Got into a discussion with a guy who got so annoyed at me for not liking a song itself but the memories it produced.

Hey. I yam what I yam.

[Zomby Woof]

42. "Blind Willie McTell"

Bob Dylan, from the third volume of his Bootleg Series.

And I will add Warren Zevon's "Searching For A Heart".

[grace0418]

43. "Baby Mine" from Dumbo.

I know it's silly but that song elicits an immediate pavlovian response from me. I start thinking about how sad and mean that movie is--the only reason they accept Dumbo is because he figures out how to fly, but before that they were merciless towards him because his ears were big. That's just fucked up. Then his mother sings that song to him about how she loves him no matter what and I just lose it. I don't have to be watching the movie either. In fact I think I've only seen the movie once because I couldn't take it. But there are a few people who have recorded that song as a lullaby, so I've heard it many times. My husband actually has a verson on his ipod because he likes Allison Krause, and if it comes on I immediately start crying (and he immediately cracks up at me).

[Coventina]

94. Same here. "Baby Mine"...I'm crying right now!

It's so heartfelt and tender.

And the scene with the mother in chains because she defended her baby.

It's just too much.....

:cry:

[grace0418]

102. Now you got me going!

Damn, I don't even have to actually hear the song anymore!

[fudge stripe cookays]

144. You're right.

I adore this song. And just have to think of it to start welling up.

[Kire]

46. "Breathe Me" - Sia

From the final scene in Six Feet Under

[Onlooker]

181. Yeah

Someone earlier today posted a link to the last 6 minutes of Six Feet Under. Wow, that was moving.

[Kire]

188. That was me.

I posted the link. I've been moved ever since I saw it on DVD. I imagine I always will.

[blue neen]

48. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones

It makes me cry everytime. :cry:

[auntAgonist]

49. a couple

Bridge Over Troubled Water
Danny Boy
What a Wonderful World
Everybody Hurts
Amazing Grace

[pitohui]

76. what a wonderful world

it does make me cry but i suspect there is something abt it that makes a LOT of people cry -- it was used to make the heroine cry in the film, "12 monkeys," one of the best movies ever!

[havocmom]

50. Sunrise Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof

Used to sing it to Wayward Daughter when she was a baby to remind myself that children do not belong to us, but are entrusted to us for but a short time.

Still brings me to tears just like when she was three days old. The song has always helped me remember to cherish the present with her as she grew up.

[mitchum]

52. "Happy Birthday"

[chaska]

68. snicker...

but just barely. Try harder next time.

[grace0418]

53. Ben Folds: "The Luckiest"

I have a soft spot for self-deprecating, slightly nerdy/awkward, but extremely sincere love songs. A far cry from the songs talking about how someone's eyes are like starlight and lips are like cherries, the songs that really get to me have things my husband might actually say. "Bangs" by They Might Be Giants and "Everyday Clothes" by Jonathan Richman are just two examples.

Bangs is about a guy who loves his girlfriend's new haircut and goes like this:
"...Bangs
Above your eyes your hair hangs
Blow my mind your royal flyness I dig your bangs...
And although I like you anyway, check out your haircut
A proscenium to stage a face that needs no makeup..."

Everyday Clothes is in a similar vein:
"...She had a black dress that I remember still
But in her ordinary clothes she was dressed to kill
I loved her
I loved her
At first sight I suppose
But I couldn’t have loved her more than in her plain old everyday clothes..."



But the one that gets me absolutely bawling is "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds. Listen to it sometime if you have never heard it. It's so sweet and so sincere. The fact that his musings are rather awkward makes it even better IMHO...

"I don't get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
Brought me here

And where was I before the day
That I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it everyday
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

What if I'd been born fifty years before you
In a house on a street where you lived?
Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike
Would I know?

And in a white sea of eyes
I see one pair that I recognize
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties
And one day passed away in his sleep
And his wife; she stayed for a couple of days
And passed away

I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong
That I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest"

[WCGreen]

55. The Brick....

About the abortion....

Damn that's haunting.....

[last_texas_dem]

85. "Smoke" by Ben Folds Five

Gets to me every time I hear it. Doesn't make me start bawling, but it does get me a little misty in the eyes. Nothing like a sad and bitter relationship-gone-wrong song to get me down.

[grace0418]

100. Yeah, Ben is good at those songs. I guess that's why a real love song

from him is that much more poignant.

[ComerPerro]

105. Cigarette is another one.

[ComerPerro]

104. Agree with "The Luckiest"

[SeattleGirl]

54. "The Living Years" -- Mike and the Mechanics

The song reminds me of my relationship with my dad, and also of the morning dad died, because I wasn't there. But unlike the song, I did have a chance to resolve a lot of things with my dad before he passed away.

[WCGreen]

56. That one get's to me too.....

[WCGreen]

57. Travelin' Soldier....

Dixie Chicks.....

[SeattleGirl]

73. That one can get to me too.

:cry:

[wildhorses]

108. me too

:cry: every time

[TheProphetess]

230. I've been listening to that one a lot lately

It's very well-done.

[bumblebee1]

71. I second that song, Seattle girl.

The song on the Disney soundtrack of "Tarzan" by Phil Collins also brings me to tears.

[SeattleGirl]

77. What is the name of the Phil Collins song?

I never saw Tarzan.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

135. "You'll Be In My Heart"?

[JCMach1]

58. Kahoutek- R.E.M.

Nightswimming also does it for me...

[deadparrot]

59. "One Song Glory."

One song
Glory
One song
Before I go
Glory
One song to leave behind

Find one song
One last refrain
Glory
From the pretty boy front man
Who wasted opportunity

One song
He had the world at his feet
Glory
In the eyes of a young girl
A young girl
Find glory
Beyond the cheap coloured lights
One song
Before the sun sets
Glory- on another empty life
Time flies - time dies
Glory - one blaze of glory
One blaze of glory - glory
Find
Glory
In a song that rings true
Truth like a blazing fire
An eternal flame

Find
One song
A song about love
Glory
From the soul of a young man
A young man

Find
The one song
Before the virus takes hold
Glory
Like a sunset
One song
To redeem this empty life

Time flies
And then - no need to endure anymore
Time dies

[SnohoDem]

60. Townes Van Zandt's

"Waitin' Round to Die"

http://ippc2.orst.edu/coopl/lyrics/tvz_004.html

(Can't make a link for some reason.)

Tom Waits' "Please Call Me Baby"

Willis Alan Ramsey's "Ballad of Spider John" for the associated memories...

Willie Nelson's "It's not Supposed to be That Way", popular when my father died.

[Skittles]

75. I babysat for Towne's son in Austin way back when

small world huh? :)

[SnohoDem]

101. Well I hope you didn't kick his ass.

[Skittles]

127. I felt sorry for Townes

his mind was clouded by alcohol, even when he wasn't drinking

[SnohoDem]

215. I didn't know him,

just saw him in coffee houses and bars in Houston in the '70s. His drinking was legendary.

I learned "Waitin' Around to Die" from my brother. It was about the only acoustic song he ever played. His interpretation was slower and sadder than the version on Townes' first album.

I don't miss much about Texas. Except the music...

[fudge stripe cookays]

146. It IS a small world.

He is a cutie.

He applied for a job at our Sound Warehouse years ago, but was naive enough to tell them how much pot he smoked. He wasn't hired.

I was mad too, cuz I wanted to ogle him while I worked!

[Brigid]

61. "Home From the Forest" by Gordon Lightfoot

Since most of you have probably never heard it, here are the lyrics.

Home From The Forest


Oh the neon lights were flashin'
And the icy wind did blow
The water seeped into his shoes
And the drizzle turned to snow
His eyes were red, his hopes were dead
And the wine was runnin' low
And the old man came home
From the forest

His tears fell on the sidewalk
As he stumbled in the street
A dozen faces stopped to stare
But no one stopped to speak
For his castle was a hallway
And the bottle was his friend
And the old man stumbled in
From the forest

Up a dark and dingy staircase
The old man made his way
His ragged coat around him
As upon his cot he lay
And he wondered how it happened
That he ended up this way
Getting lost like a fool
In the forest

And as he lay there sleeping
A vision did appear
Upon his mantle shining
A face of one so dear
Who had loved him in the springtime
Of a long-forgotten year
When the wildflowers did bloom
In the forest

She touched his grizzled fingers
And she called him by his name
And then he heard the joyful sound
Of children at their games
In an old house on a hillside
In some forgotten town
Where the river runs down
From the forest

With a mighty roar the big jets soar
Above the canyon streets
And the con men con but life goes on
For the city never sleeps
And to an old forgotten soldier
The dawn will come no more
For the old man has come home
From the forest


BTW, "My Hometown" by Bruce Springsteen gets me every time too.

[saltpoint]

152. Great choices. The Lightfoot song is one of my favorites.

[reyd reid reed]

62. I know it sounds stupid, but In the Ghetto

And Amazing Grace, when it's done well.

Danny Boy is another one.

And sometimes, depending on my mood at the moment, a Hallmark commercial can do it...

[Ava]

63. i like cartmen's version

:rofl:

sorry, just had to say it. ;)

[chaska]

64. 'I Should Be Laughing', Patty Smyth. Read it and weap with me, won't you?

Somewhere in a scrap book
There's a rose you gave to me
And a photograph that's torn in half
And all that's left is me

And happily ever after
That came after I was gone
And they tell you that you can't go back
Then why can't I go on?

When I should be laughin' at this joke
Dressed up as love, diguised as hope
And isn't funny after all this time
A tear is fallin' when i should be laughin'

Sunsets are like a painting, windows like a frame
The night comes in and I begin
To see it all again

Cause I should be laughin' at this joke
The damage done, the words I spoke
And isn't funny after all this time
Regret can find me, when I should be laughin'

I should laughin' at life
And all of the tricks that it plays
I should be laughing at time
And how fast its slippin' away

Somewhere in a scrap book
There's a rose you gave to me
And with one last look
I close the book
And let the past just be

When should be laughin' at this joke
Dressed up as love, diguised as hope
And isn't funny after all this time
A tear is fallin' when i should be laughin'

[hyphenate]

65. Okay, so I'm a patsy

when it comes to crying at songs. But the one I think of that most affects me is "Memory" from CATS.

And it's because I love my furkits, and when my Kira got out of the house nearly three years ago and never came home, all I can think of is the pain, the horror and the torture she probably went through. And so I think of all the other lost cats, the alley cats, the feral cats who will never know a warm hand or soft voice, the millions mistreated or abused, and all those who will never know love or who have forgotten it as a thing of their past.

Some people treat my devotion to cats with dismissal because they say there are too many people in this world who are in worse straits, and that animal rights issues are a "luxury" in a world gone mad. But if we don't think about the animals--if we treat them with dismissal, and if we continue to push them aside, we will lose the very humanity we need to deal with ALL creatures, including human beings.

So, yes, I cry at "Memory" because it hits home a little too close.

[Hissyspit]

66. Main Theme from "Once Upon A Time In The West"; also Johnny Cash's

version of "Hurt."

[Floogeldy]

69. Boo hoo hoo. I can't talk right now.

Damn the consistency of it all. :cry:

[Notoverit]

70. Black Bird - The Beatles

[saltpoint]

151. I don't blame you one bit. A tremendous composition.

[jpgray]

72. Robert Wyatt's cover of Chic's "At Last I Am Free"

Totally changes the song.

[Jazz2006]

78. Bridge Over Troubled Water

Yeah, yeah, I know.

But it's a context thing.

:cry:

[azmouse]

115. That would be my choice too.

I love the words to the song. It chokes me up every time. I won't listen to it with anyone else around because I don't want them to see me tear up.

[SoCalDemGrrl]

79. "The Prayer" - Andrea Bocelli

[sakabatou]

80. "Farewell" by Yoko Kanno

And the video to go with it.

[MissHoneychurch]

81. "The Rose" by Bette Middler

also "Wind beneath your wings" by her.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

114. Both of those get to me......

But especially "The Rose"........The lyrics are astonishing.....

:hug:

[retread]

83. Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday n/t

[grannylib]

141. Now that's a haunting song...tears indeed.

[MsKandice01]

206. That one does it to me too...

[ScreamingMeemie]

84. "Veronica" by Elvis Costello and yes, I'll admit "Honey" by Bobby G.

:hi:

[WCGreen]

109. Veronica, yea......

[skyblue]

200. My Funny Valentine - Elvis Costello and Nico versions.

[Sugar Smack]

86. "Martha" by Tom Waits and "I Love" by Tom T. Hall

every time. :cry:

[riona]

87. Knights in White Satin

[Burma Jones]

88. Souveniers, Sam Stone and Hello In There - John Prine

Walking Home - Iris DeMent

The Second Movement of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto

[skyblue]

202. Agreed

[ScreamingMeemie]

90. I forgot one..."Always On My Mind" and "He Stopped Loving Her Today"...

:cry: It's on right now...sniffle. :(

[peekaloo]

91. Wendell Gee by r.e.m.

[AngryAmish]

92. Walk This Way by Run-DMC

[RandomKoolzip]

93. Every time? "A Change is Gonna Come," Otis Redding's version.

Sam Cooke's is a thing of rare beauty, too, but I really prefer Otis's, plus there's personal reasons why (which I know you know.)

Also:

"River," Joni Mitchell
"Twin Falls," Ben Folds
"Give Judy My Notice," Ben Folds
"Fight Test" and "Do You Realize??" by The Flaming Lips
"Ooh La La," The Faces
"Blue Red and Grey," The Who
"Sad Eyes," Robert John
"Eight Miles High" (what a catharsis!) Husker Du
"Why Won't You Stay?" American Music Club
"My Lady Story," Antony and the Johnsons
"Bartender's Blues," George Jones
"Living Life," "Hey Joe," and "Walking the Cow," K. McCarty
"Sail Away," "Louisiana 1927" and "Old Man," Randy Newman
"The End of the Rainbow," Richard and Linda Thompson
"I Just Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes," Blind Willie Johnson
"Any Day Now," Ronnie Milsap

Yup, I'm a sap. I'm a total sucker for sad songs.

[Magrittes Pipe]

117. You cry a lot, crybaby.

:thumbsdown:

[RandomKoolzip]

173. Al: being completely serious here....

You're really a cool guy, especially when you're sincere (your eloquence shines).

[Magrittes Pipe]

182. To be fair...

...the entire "In the Aeroplane over the Sea" album makes me weep like a baby.

[RandomKoolzip]

191. Pussy.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

157. There's one performance of a Neil Young song that has made it a tear

jerker for all time for me.

:hug:

[RandomKoolzip]

175. Aw, dawg....c'mere, yew

:hug:

[merh]

96. Claptons - Tears in Heaven

:cry:

[CTyankee]

118. That is SO hard to take. I also tear up at "Here Comes the Sun"

because I remember when it came out and how it was played when George Harrison died. Oh, god.

[merh]

125. Clapton's song

came out at the same time we had to bury a very close friend, his family asked me to write his eulogy. I remember crying and singing to that song as I drove the cemetary.

Now I might tear up when I hear Here Comes the Sun next. :hug:

[MnFats]

237. that song (tears) makes me think of Jacob Wetterling.

11-year-old kid walking with his brother and a friend in the rural mn. countryside. kidnapped; to this day not a trace of him has been found. it is a great and agonizing tragedy....

[bmbmd]

97. When my friend Joe and his wife lost their baby

to SIDS, the organist played "Brahm's Lullaby" at the funeral. Enough said.

[Jade Fox]

99. "Calling All Angels" Jane Siberry...

I got that CD right when my grandfather died, and that song is forever connected with lose and grief for me.

[ComerPerro]

106. When I see it live: Phish's "Wading in the Velvet Sea"

and "Silent in the Morning"

[eyesroll]

107. The Cash version of "In My Life"

The Beatles version seems appropriate for a wedding.
The Cash version seems appropriate for a memorial.

[hopein08]

110. "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from Phantom of the Opera...

You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once a friend and father
Then my world was shattered

Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here

Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won't help me to do
All that you dreamed I could

Passing bells and sculpted angels
Cold and monumental
Seem for you the wrong companions
You were warm and gentle

Too many years fighting back tears
Why can't the past just die?

Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say goodbye
Try to forgive, teach me to live
Give me the strength to try

No more memories, no more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years
Help me say goodbye
Help me say goodbye

[Virginia Dare]

111. Shannon...

by Henry Gross, about losing a beloved dog.

:cry:

[fudge stripe cookays]

147. Oh you HAD to mention that one!

Dammit!

I completely lose it when I hear Shannon. Every damned time. Falsetto and everything. Makes you want to hug your pet really tight and never let go!

[jukes]

112. anything by

ABBA!




:rofl:

[Magrittes Pipe]

113. "If There Is Something," Roxy Music.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

116. There isn't a single song that consistently brings me to tears.

Perhaps that is because I am a cyborg.

Oddly, sad songs don't really make me sad. Some upbeat numbers are so good they can make me shed a tear though. "Pressure Drop" is one of them.

[CTyankee]

119. Brahms German Requiem, esp. "How lovely are thy dwelling places"

My husband put it on after I returned from burying my brother in Texas back in 2004. We listen to it ever so often now and I have seen it performed a couple of times. It is a great experience.

[tokenlib]

231. Agree with you about the Brahms Requiem

Sang the "How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place" in choir in college when on tour...and still start singing the parts when listening to it. The whole thing is just a masterpiece. Will always choke me up...

[azmouse]

120. To Where You Are by Josh Groban

"To Where You Are"

Who can say for certain
Maybe you're still here
I feel you all around me
Your memory's so clear

Deep in the stillness
I can hear you speak
You're still an inspiration
Can it be
That you are my
Forever love
And you are watching over me from up above

Fly me up to where you are
Beyond the distant star
I wish upon tonight
To see you smile
If only for awhile to know you're there
A breath away's not far
To where you are

Are you gently sleeping
Here inside my dream
And isn't faith believing
All power can't be seen

As my heart holds you
Just one beat away
I cherish all you gave me everyday
'Cause you are my
Forever love
Watching me from up above

And I believe
That angels breathe
And that love will live on and never leave

Fly me up
To where you are
Beyond the distant star
I wish upon tonight
To see you smile
If only for awhile
To know you're there
A breath away's not far
To where you are

I know you're there
A breath away's not far
To where you are

[khashka]

122. Me and a Gun - Tori Amos.

The story of a woman who has been raped. And no longer knows where safety is.

The problem is that is so true..... "It's funny, you can laugh, but these things go through your head."



Sorry,

Khash.

[miss_american_pie]

126. And I haven't seen Barbados...

Yeah, that song gets me, too.

[TheProphetess]

229. I forgot about that one

It's a rough one to listen to without getting chills.

http://www.welcometobarbados.org/
"A Tori Amos inspired site for rape and sexual abuse survivors"

[jus_the_facts]

123. The Star Spangled Banner

:cry:

[benEzra]

124. Cat's in the Cradle, by Judy Collins (Colors of the Day) n/t

[6000eliot]

130. "Vincent" by Don McLean

I don't know why even, but it always chokes me up.

[against all enemies]

131. Nothing Compares to You

It's been seven hours and fifteen days
Since you took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took your love away
Since you been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
But nothing ...
I said nothing can take away these blues,
'Cause nothing compares ...
Nothing compares to you

It's been so lonely without you here
Like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling
Tell me baby where did I go wrong?
I could put my arms around every boy I see
But they'd only remind me of you
went to the doctor guess what he told me
Guess what he told me?
He said, girl, you better have fun
No matter what you do
But he's a fool ...
'Cause nothing compares ...
Nothing compares to you ...

All the flowers that you planted, mama
In the back yard
All died when you went away
I know that living with you baby was sometimes hard
But I'm willing to give it another try
'Cause nothing compares ...
Nothing compares to you

[WritingIsMyReligion]

134. A couple that always make me really sad:

"I Can't Make You Love Me"--Bonnie Raitt
"Tears in Heaven"--Eric Clapton
"Stairway to Heaven"--Led Zeppelin
"The Living Years"--Mike and the Mechanics


AND, stereotypically:

"Graduation (Friends Forever)"--Vitamin C

:cry::cry:

[Fountain79]

136. Go rest high on that mountain....

It's a religious song but it always moves me when I hear it. I'm more or less an agnostic but that songs moves me.

[Fountain79]

138. La Vida es un carnival....

Another song that truly moves me is from the late/great Celia Cruz, La Vida es un carnival(life is a carnival). Sings about how important it is to enjoy life and maintain a positive outlook no matter what happens.

[Cos]

139. James Keelaghan, Cold Missouri Waters; The Highwayman

If I listen to any song often enough, even if it brought me to tears, eventually it won't. But some "last" for many more listens than others, and James Keelaghan has written more of those than anyone else. He knows just how to put that little added twist in a disaster song, that really gets you because you weren't expecting it. In Cold Missouri Waters, it's the deathbed framing narrative, and also the morning after, planting crosses. In Captain Torres, it's the blinking red lights on the answering machines. wham! - he hits you with a delicate little nuance coming from a different direction.

There are a very few songs I deliberately limit how often I listen to, because I don't want to lose the power of the reaction they evoke. One of those is The Highwayman by Loreena McKennitt, which is her setting to music of a poem by Alfred Noyes.

[grannylib]

140. "And She Goes On" Crowded House...it's an anthem for my darling

daughter, every time I hear it.

Pretty soon you'll be able to remember her
Lying in the garden, singing
Right where she'll always be
The door is always open

This is the place that I loved her
And these are the friends that she had
Long may the mountain ring
To the sound of her laughter

And she goes on and on...
In her soft wind I will whisper
In her warm sun I will glisten
'Til we see her once again
In a world without end...

There's more but it's hard to type when I'm misty-eyed...
Miss you, Baby...

[MissMillie]

195. Love, love, love, love, love Crowded House

Did I say LOVE?

[grannylib]

221. How about Split Enz and/or Neil as a solo? Loved the Enz from the first

moment I heard them, and loved every single minute of every single Crowded House tune ever anywhere, and Neil is a damn genius.
I just do not get tired of listening to them!

"I Hope I Never" got me through an ugly divorce - Tim Finn has the voice of an angel too

[bertha katzenengel]

142. because it makes me think of my sisters, and who they are to me

"Wind Beneath My Wings"

[AmandaRuth]

143. The song that makes me feel meloncholy

is Steve Earle's My Old Friend the Blues, the song that actually brings tears to me is the Carter Family's Will the Circle be Unbroken, (at least I think that's the proper name).

[originalpckelly]

145. Hail to The Chief (Village Idiot), do I have to say more?(n/t)

[Jean Louise Finch]

148. Nightswimming by REM

This song was very popular when I graduated from high school and everything was changing.

"September's coming soon. Pining for the moon."

Kills me still.

[AwakeAtLast]

207. They have a song on the Green album called "The Wrong Child"

I will fall into a wailing puddle listening to that one. Not very well known, though, I don't think anyway.

<snif>

[Jean Louise Finch]

218. I know it well

But I don't listen to it anymore because it makes me much too sad. It's the saddest, saddest story.

[NanceGreggs]

149. "Leader of The Band" by Dan Fogelberg

My dad and I didn't have any contact with each other for the last twenty years of his life (at the urging of his second wife, who didn't want to acknowledge his children by a previous marriage).

I remember my dad playing the guitar when I was a kid, when we were close, when I was his little girl.

Fogelberg's musical tribute to his own father makes me teary eyed every time.

[saltpoint]

150. "Streets of London," by Ralph McTell, "A Case of You," Joni Mitchell,

"Farther On," Jackson Browne, "From Boulder to Birmingham" by Emmylou Harris, and Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer."

[playkate]

153. (Anybody here seen my old friend) Bobby, Martin, and John...?

You know the one I mean. It's impossible to hear it without thinking of the terribly cut short lives.

[playkate]

154. Taps, The Star-Spangled Banner, Marine Corps Hymn.

[playkate]

155. The Wreck Of the Edmund Fitgerald

[Blue-Jay]

156. Anything by the Dead.

It makes me cry that they don't bother to tune their guitars.

:cry:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

158. Suck my balls!

[Blue-Jay]

159. bleh. salty.

I'm grateful.

they're dead.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

160. keep sucking - you'll taste turkey, then mashed potatoes and then..YUM...

BLUEBERRY PIE!!!!

[Blue-Jay]

161. You had me at "mashed potatoes'.

YUM!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

162. That's what she said.

What the hell does that mean anyway?

[Blue-Jay]

164. That means that..

HeyHEY's mom is in town.

BA-ZING!!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

165. Will it make me wet!?!?! Will it make me sweat?!?!?!?!

[swag]

163. None consistently.

When I hear a song after having been brought to tears (always while in my cups) by a prior listening, I usually feel foolish for having gotten all weepy the time before. Silly.

Lots of good, heart-wrenching songs out there though. Go, emo mongers, go!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

166. You meant "always while in my cuffs". Right?

[swag]

169. I'll put those to good use at my forthcoming Furby convention

Can't wait for the luncheon with vendors.

[RandomKoolzip]

174. Huh. This post explains a lot.

No wonder you post-punkers go for that stilted, cold, fey, removed shit: real life must be just too gauche.

:evilgrin:

Signed,

some skeevy Deadhead who cries a lot

[KyndCulture]

167. Depeche Mode's - I want somebody to love.

tears my guts up!

[For PaisAn]

168. Fields of Gold by Sting

It just haunts me every time I hear it.

[BikeWriter]

171. Any patriotic song. I grieve for our America!

[Ellen Forradalom]

172. "Pale Blue Eyes," Velvet Underground;

"Paris, Texas," Ry Cooder; and "I Only Have Eyes for You," The Flamingos, all for a lover who commit suicide.

"Nothing Takes the Place of You," Toussaint McCall, and "California Stars," Jeff Tweedy (words by Woody Guthrie), for a lover I can never have.

[Seabiscuit]

177. "There's A Place For Us" - West Side Story

[BikeWriter]

179. "Those Old Cottonfields Back Home" cost me $40.00 recently.

I heard the Okie National Anthem played and bought the house a round!

COTTON FIELDS
WRITER HUDDIE LEDBETTER

When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home

--- Instrumental ---

When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In those old cotton fields back home
In those old cotton fields back home...

[Iniquitous Bunny]

180. "When She Loved Me" by Sarah McLachlan

[Midlodemocrat]

183. I can't tell you guys. You'll make fun of me.

[ScreamingMeemie]

184. Hey! I fessed up to "Honey" so...spill.

People make fun of "Honey" all the time...and it makes me tear up.

You can do it...I won't laugh... Promise. :)

[Midlodemocrat]

185. Okay, Mrs. G, just for you.

I can only Imagine.


I cry every time.

[ScreamingMeemie]

187. Awww. No shame there.

I always tear up at funerals when I hear "Be Not Afraid".

1. You shall cross the barren desert, but you shall not die of thirst. You
shall wander far in safety though you do not know the way. You shall speak
your words in foreign lands and all will understand. You shall see the face
of God and live.

R. Be not afraid. I go before you always. Come follow me, and I will give
you rest.

2. If you pass through raging waters in the sea, you shall not drown. If
you walk amid the burning flames, you shall not be harmed. If you stand
before the pow'r of hell and death is at your side, know that I am with you
through it all.

3. Blessed are your poor, for the kingdom shall be theirs. Blest are you
that weep and mourn, for one day you shall laugh. And if wicked men insult
and hate you all because of me, blessed, blessed are you!

[Midlodemocrat]

189. Or Here I Am, Lord.

Just hearing the introduction makes me start sobbing.

[ScreamingMeemie]

190. Oh...me too! They played that at my grandpa's funeral along with

"Be not Afraid" and I didn't make it past the first chord.

[TheProphetess]

227. That one gets me every single time

It's so touching. :cry:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

197. spill it!

[stuntcat]

186. "Fancy" by Reba McEntire

"Here's ya one chance Fancy, don't let me down"

[SnohoDem]

216. Welcome to DU!

:hi: :hi:

Try to listen to the Bobbie Gentry version. Recorded about '68. Awesome song.

[stuntcat]

240. hey thanks!

I've never even heard of that, OH BUT I WILL hear it now :D

[mduffy31]

193. Grace is Gone

By the Dave Matthews Band. Just change Grace with Jen, and it describes my life. Also there is a good song called the 8th of November about the first living black man who got the CMOH during Vietnam when he was a medic and almost his entire unit was wiped out by 1200 VC. It starts with a narrative by Kris Kristofferson telling his story. It is by Big and Rich, and I not a country fan by any stretch of the imagination.

[graywarrior]

198. Jesse by Janis Ian absolutely floors me every time I hear it.

Or the version by Judy Collins. Manly coz it's my brother's name and I don't know where he is going on 3 years now.

[Tikki]

199. "Steppin' Out"....Joe Jackson....you would have had to....

long live...my life...to understand.

......"You -
Can dress in pink and blue just like a child
And in a yellow taxi turn to me and smile
We’ll be there in just a while
If you follow me".........


Tikki

[MountainMama]

201. I'm sentimental myself....

"Your Song" by Elton John...it's just so sweet
"Wish you Were Here" by Pink Floyd....it reminds me of someone very special
"Who Will Watch the Homeplace?" by Laurie Lewis...she wrote it about a friend in West Virginia who was losing the family farm. I'm from WV (check the handle) and now in AZ and I worry about my family's properties and get homesick. I played this song the other day and just lost it.

The chorus is repeated after each verse. Here are the lyrics:

Leaves are falling and turning to showers of gold
As the postman climbs up our long hill
And there's sympathy written all over his face
As he hands me a couple more bills

Who will watch the home place
Who will tend my hearts dear space
Who will fill my empty place
When I am gone from here

There's a lovely green nook by a clear-running stream
It was my place when I was quite small
And it's creatures and sounds could soothe my worst pains
But today they don't ease me at all

{Chorus}

In my grandfather's shed there are hundreds of tools
I know them by feel and by name
And like parts of my body they've patched this old place
When I move them they won't be the same

{Chorus}

Now I wander around touching each blessed thing
The chimney the tables the trees
And my memories swirl 'round me like birds on the wing
When I leave here oh who will I be

{Chorus}

[Nikia]

203. One Tin Soldier

Other songs I have gotten more immune to after listening to them often.

[taterguy]

204. surprised these haven't been mentioned

1) Richard Thompson's song about the Vincent motorcycle. First heard it when he performed it on that PBS Show Sessions at West 54th, joined by Nanci Griffith, always brings a lump in my throat.
2) Rickie Lee Jones Skeletons, the song about the guy killed by the cops when his wife was expecting, and the brilliant thing about the album is that it's followed by a very upbeat song so listeners aren't left totally depressed.
3) The Byrds He Was a Friend of Mine. I wasn't alive when JFK was killed but when Paul Wellstone died I played this song over and over and cried like a baby

[begley]

208. 'Tears in Heaven' -- Eric Clapton

The song was written about his six-year-old son who fell out the window of a high-rise apartment. It just breaks my heart because I think of how I would to lose my child, especially at a young age.

[smirkymonkey]

209. "Many Rivers to Cross"

Various Artists: Jimmy Cliff, The Animals, UB40, et al. I think UB40's version is the saddest for some reason.

Also, "Where Are You Going, My Little One, Little One.." My dad used to sing it to me when I was little. He's still alive and well, but it always makes me cry whenever I hear it because I guess I never wanted to leave him. :(

[steely]

210. Cats in the Cradle

Harry Chapin

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

211. Old And Wise By Alan Parsons Project, Goodnight Saigon By Billy Joel,

The Show Must Go On by Queen chokes me up sometimes along with Who Wants To Live Forever.

For any of you that haven't ever heard of Old and Wise by Alan Parsons Project, I Implore you to download it and listen to it.

[kevsand]

212. "Penny Evans"

by Steve Goodman

[Hotler]

213. Etta James-"If I Had Any Pride Left at All."

And "Love's Been Rough on Me"

[rasputin1952]

214. Taps gets me everytime...but others include:

Tears In Heaven: Clapton
Babe: Styx
Both Sides Now: Judy Collins
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/A Wonderful World: (the Hawaiian version)
A Wonderful World: Satchmo
Cat's In The Cradle: Chapin
There's a Place For Us: Steisand, (and WSS)
Father to Son: Stevens
This is a Song,(for the brokenhearted)): Cher
Fields of Gold: Sting

Each of these holds a special memory for me. There are plenty of others, but music has changed so much that finding ballads is pretty hard these days.

Taps is the real killer though...:cry: I have been to many a military funeral, and when that bugle comes from behind a hill, I can't stop myself from tearing up. It is one of the most moving pieces for me, I feel as if I am transcending this life, the effect on me is more than I can put into words.

[Midlodemocrat]

242. When they played Taps at my dad's burial, I completely

fell apart. It was so unbelievably moving. And, when they presented me the flag with the words 'from a grateful nation', well, let's just say, I am weeping as I type this.

[orleans]

217. Hungry Years by Neil Sedaka & In My Life by Beatles

Girl we made it to the top
We went so high we couldn't stop
We climbed the ladder leading us nowhere
Two of us together
Building castles in the air

We spun so fast we couldn't tell
The gold ring from the carousel
How could we know the ride would turn out bad
Everything we wanted
Was everything we had

I miss the hungry years
The once upon a time
The lovely long ago
We didn't have a dime
Those days of me and you
We lost along the way

How could I be so blind
Not to see the door
Closing on the world
I now hunger for
Looking through my tears
I miss the hungry years

We shared our daydreams one by one
Making plans was so much fun
We set our goals and reached the highest star
The things that we were after
Were much better from afar

Here we stand just me and you
With everything and nothing, too
It wasn't worth the price we had to pay
Honey take me home
Let's go back to yesterday

I miss the hungry years
The once upon a time
The lovely long ago
We didn't have a dime
Those days of me and you
We lost along the way

How could I be so blind
Not to see the door
Closing on the world
I know hunger for
Looking through my tears
I miss the hungry years
I miss the hungry years

[gemini_liberal]

220. Any of the really late Joy Division stuff

Especially Love Will Tear Us Apart, Atmosphere and Ceremony (better known by the cover of it they did when they became New Order.) All very haunting stuff, can't help but shed a tear...

[ncrainbowgrrl]

223. I have a few: (ok, I'm an emotional musical person)

"The Luckiest"- Ben Folds
(actually the song that my partner and I consider to be "our song.")

Scarecrow- Melissa Etheridge

"When Fall Comes to New England"- Cheryl Wheeler

"Take a Picture" -Filter

[libnnc]

224. "Company" by Rickie Lee Jones

and more recently Pink's "Dear Mr. President"

A glass of wine and RLJ get me very verklempt sometimes

[TOhioLiberal]

225. Memphis by Johnny Rivers...

At the end of the song when he says 'Marie is only 6 years old, information please...' I bawl like a baby.

[Zookeeper]

226. "I'm so lonesome I could cry" by Hank Williams

I'm a cynic, but Williams' voice and clarity really gets to me.

[TheProphetess]

228. Elton John's The Last Song

Every time he gets to the line "That kind of understanding sets me free" I just lose it.
It's the most touching song about a man and his father coming together before he dies of AIDS. Gets me every time.

[Bossy Monkey]

232. Steve Earle, Valentine's Day

Often as not right past "to tears" and all the way to bawling:

I come to you with empty hands
I guess I just forgot again
I only got my love to send
On Valentine's Day

I ain't got a card to sign
Roses have been hard to find
I only hope that you'll be mine
On Valentine's Day
I know that I swore that I wouldn't forget
I wrote it all down: I lost it I guess
There's so much I want to say
But all the words just slip away

The way you love me every day
Is Valentine's Day

If I could I would deliver to you
Diamonds and gold; it's the least I can do
So if you'll take my IOU
I could make it up to you
Until then I hope my heart will do
For Valentine's Day

[njdemocrat106]

233. "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits

I don't think I've cried to it when I've played the "Making Movies" album (or CD, I should say), but I remember having the MIDI version playing on my computer for some reason, and I just started bawling. The music, without the singing and lyrics, is sad in itself.

[Calliope]

234. I watched South Pacific on PBS last night so....

Brian Stokes Mitchell singing "This Nearly Was Mine"

Also
Barber's "Adagio For Strings"
Jerry Orbach singing "Try to Remember"
Eva Cassidy singing "What a Wonderful World"

[SKKY]

235. "She makes my day" by Robert Palmer

I think about my wife when I hear it, because she always does.

[northamericancitizen]

239. love song which became a "self love" song : words from it:

Girl, I can't live without you

Girl, I never, never gonna split


Whatever you do, whatever you say
Girl I can't be without you


Those words I used just before entering my fist and last : real therapy starting up session.

Means the world to me.

lise

[SacredCow]

241. Unimaginable- by The Monarchs

very obscure- I've little doubt that I'll be the only one who has ever heard it.

[NNadir]

243. Ralph Towner's "Beneath an Evening Sky."

It's a beautiful piece.

[GirlinContempt]

244. O soave fanciulla from Puccini's La Boheme

[yurbud]

245. can't live, I'll be there, sometimes when we touch...all the shmaltziest

over the top love songs.